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  • Of all the neighborhood boys who tortured Ali, Assef was by far the most relentless.†   (source)
  • A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault.†   (source)
  • My opponent's movements were relentless and precise, and I spent the first few waves just trying to evade him.†   (source)
  • More like a swordfish twisting on a line, and that line is pulling him relentlessly toward ..."Home," says Cy.†   (source)
  • A kind and generous man, Lewis Krakauer loved his five children deeply, in the autocratic way of fathers, but his worldview was colored by a relentlessly competitive nature.†   (source)
  • Louie, still in the greenhouse, saw rounds ripping through the Zeros' fuselages and wings, but the planes were relentless.†   (source)
  • The most relentless of his new fears was that they would starve.†   (source)
  • Sam Westing was not murdered, but one of his heirs was guilty—guilty of some offense against a relentless man.†   (source)
  • In his ears is the ticking of the knitting needles, and under that the clacking of the wheels along the iron rails, like the workings of some relentless metronome.†   (source)
  • As a trainer, she was relentless and precise, moving with the same crisp economy Edgar had noticed in teachers and nurses.†   (source)
  • I tried my best to be a worthy representative of my homeland, but, like a Hollywood celebrity relentlessly pursued by paparazzi, I sometimes got tired of the questions.†   (source)
  • At the time, standing behind the little rope and gazing at the poet's desk, Andrey had thought the whole venture rather preposterous—as if by keeping a few belongings in place, one might actually protect a moment from the relentless onslaught of time.†   (source)
  • Only a familiar territory will allow them to fulfill the two relentless imperatives of the wild: the avoidance of enemies and the getting of food and water.†   (source)
  • But she began to see his desperate and relentless focus on her as something closer to obsessive need than love.†   (source)
  • With that, the high-pitched noise moved to the background, layered atop a second noise, a loose, relentless rumble-the sound of a running river-and the whiteness shrank to a sun spot reflecting off shimmering waters.†   (source)
  • But the most debilitating was a burning sensation in his hands and feet; relentless, pulsing, it would leave him unable to focus on anything else.†   (source)
  • Teabing's voice was relentless.†   (source)
  • He pushed and swatted at his attacker, a relentless jumble of skin and bones cavorting on top of him as he tried to gain purchase.†   (source)
  • One of the Specials was only a stone's throw away, scanning the forest with slow back-and-forth sweeps of his head, his eyes searching the dense trees relentlessly.†   (source)
  • The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth.†   (source)
  • A big station clock rattles off a relentless advance of seconds, and Marie-Laure sits beside her great-uncle and listens to the wasted and wretched shamble off the trains.†   (source)
  • The jury of nine women and three men seemed predisposed to hand down a third conviction; all of them, having been subjected to six years of relentless publicity, admitted that they knew about the case and were aware that two prior juries had already found Williams guilty.†   (source)
  • The wind had let up, but the cold rain still fell relentlessly from some endless reservoir in the sky.†   (source)
  • Their relentless staring was starting to annoy him.†   (source)
  • The afternoon was relentless, and her score barely reached 93.†   (source)
  • He was relentlessly cheerful, even in the face of Mom's rising anger.†   (source)
  • When he broke her arm, by knocking or pushing her down in the bathroom (I was never quite able to picture it when she told me) so that she fell on her wrist on the tile floor, she was relentless.†   (source)
  • Their campaign was relentless, but minor; she tried out for parts conventionally bestowed upon men; he went after the lesser women's roles—preferably nonspeaking.†   (source)
  • Even now, they stood nearby, watching him relentlessly.†   (source)
  • Yet every night, some time before the dawn, Drogo would come to her tent and wake her in the dark, to ride her as relentlessly as he rode his stallion.†   (source)
  • It was relentless, a powerful confirmation of what they had shared the day before.†   (source)
  • And she was the queen, able to move in all directions, relentless in her pursuit, always able to find my weakest spots.†   (source)
  • I stood in a daze, as Mother badgered me relentlessly.†   (source)
  • There were always adults available to encourage this relentless preening.†   (source)
  • The Criminal Element said that it was a good idea to engage in relentless, open-ended questioning.†   (source)
  • "Let's be moving," said Jack relentlessly, "we're wasting time."†   (source)
  • At the opposite end of the table sat the two ministers, Reverend John Woodbridge and Dr. Gershom Bulkeley, both famed for their relentless sermons against witchcraft.†   (source)
  • She would feel it then, creeping up the side of her calves and into her gut, the onslaught, the grief coming, the tears like a small relentless army approaching the front lines of her eyes, and she would breathe in, taking a large gulp of air to try to stop herself from crying in a public place.†   (source)
  • She still wore her long veil, blindingly bright beneath the relentless sun.†   (source)
  • Recently, after enduring more than half a century of relentless, pernickety attention, the ornamental garden had been abandoned.†   (source)
  • Relentlessly submissive.†   (source)
  • They told us the departing Jews were going to better lives away from the city, where they would be in less crowded conditions and not have to endure the relentless harassment from German soldiers patrolling the streets.†   (source)
  • The other Hogwarts students tease Scorpius about it relentlessly—if the Ministry could release a statement reaffirming that all Time Turners were destroyed in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries ...†   (source)
  • It moved relentlessly toward the hospital, which squatted at the compound's end.†   (source)
  • In fact he was so relentless in sidestepping my apologies and directing his anger full-bore on Hobie that I was starting to think that I had stumbled into some preexisting grudge or hatred.†   (source)
  • Year in, year out, as far back as history is recorded, farmers from across Asia have engaged in the same relentless, intricate pattern of agriculture.†   (source)
  • The soldiers chased him relentlessly.†   (source)
  • That's when you realize that most of it—life, the relentless mechanism of existing—isn't about you.†   (source)
  • At first it wasn't so relentless.†   (source)
  • Amy's relentless achieving is greeted with open-palmed acceptance and maybe a bit of pity.†   (source)
  • Here was a tangible remnant of the Riders' glory, tarnished though it was by the relentless pull of time.†   (source)
  • The cold has invaded my body now, seeped into my bones, a cold like no other I have ever felt, penetrating, relentless.†   (source)
  • That night Mack slept in fits and starts as the images continued to pound him, like relentless waves on a rocky shore.†   (source)
  • He put his hands over his head as we kicked him relentlessly and left him lying on the floor bleeding and unconscious.†   (source)
  • They were relentless, bringing new poems every day for an entire week.†   (source)
  • Children serve as impossible-to-ignore, in-your-face timepieces, marking the relentless march of one's life through what otherwise might seem an infinite sea of minutes, hours, days, and years.†   (source)
  • He's relentless.†   (source)
  • Though we may deplore and condemn such actions from a humane point of view, we still have to acknowledge their unconditional, relentless and irrevocable nature.†   (source)
  • While he walked me to English, when he met me after Spanish, all through the lunch hour, he questioned me relentlessly about every insignificant detail of my existence.†   (source)
  • The relentless uniformity of it upsets him profoundly, more so than even the hospital, and the sight of his father's face.†   (source)
  • Some readers find relentless irony difficult to warm to, and some writers find that being ironic carries perils.†   (source)
  • Up and down the door I could see the words desperate / relentless / condemned / empowered.†   (source)
  • It was impossible to recognize that stooped and shabby little man in the glorious figure at the door, greeting newcomers with a formal welcome followed by a relentless tour of the shop.†   (source)
  • Once my warriors catch its scent, they will pursue its owner relentlessly.†   (source)
  • A typical likeness is the way the world is seen as being the subject of a drama in which the forces of Good and Evil confront each other in a relentless struggle.†   (source)
  • Though radium often causes relentless nausea, vomiting, weakness, and anemia, there's no record of Henrietta having any side effects, and no one remembers her complaining of feeling sick.†   (source)
  • I knew only the Lestat who sneered at my library, called it a pile of dust, ridiculed relentlessly my reading, my meditations.†   (source)
  • The stone floor of the greenhouse was cold against her bare legs, but it was pleasant after so many days of relentless heat.†   (source)
  • It is restless and relentlessly grey.†   (source)
  • Again, the trend was gradual but relentless, until the early 2000s when, on average, NFL quarterbacks made good on 60 percent of their throws.†   (source)
  • But our teachers continued, relentlessly.†   (source)
  • He slams the window shut, strangling the relentless keening of the smoke alarm.†   (source)
  • She left and he looked stupidly at the charcoal grill something meant for an outdoor summer patio which now stood in his room, calling up relentless images of idols and sacrifices.†   (source)
  • They brought in old Pedro Garcia, who shuffled in looking so dark, small, and toothless that Esteban was surprised at this sign of time's relentless passage.†   (source)
  • He was absolutely relentless, and he really loved Morgan and me, two of only six survivors in the class.†   (source)
  • During the next two years the Kabila government engaged in a relentless purge of anyone it thought might have been associated with the plots against him—especially Tutsis from eastern Congo, and anyone who had ever had anything to do with Masasu.†   (source)
  • To her credit, Kathy Usher is a relentless researcher.†   (source)
  • They had had enough of hiding and just didn't understand how relentless the media could be.†   (source)
  • I ran the company for thirty-five years—almost all the time in the midst of relentless bickering.†   (source)
  • "Oh my God, you're relentless," I say, throwing my hands up.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was my performance dragging the defensive tackle into the bathroom stall, or maybe it was my relentless determination to never lose any of the drills; but for whatever reason, the offense selected me—a freshman quarterback.†   (source)
  • He had seen them as he passed by, sitting in their parlors with an absorbed look and folded arms, feeling unbroken time pass, relentless times, because it was useless to divide it into months and years, and the days into hours, when one could do nothing but contemplate the rain.†   (source)
  • The energy sphere of the planet is there to see and understand—a relentless process, but a process nonetheless.†   (source)
  • His father went quietly and relentlessly on.†   (source)
  • With a zeal rivaled only by Alex Haley's relentless search for Kunta Kinte, he dived into Dale's seamy background, where he discovered the above story to be absolutely true and correct.†   (source)
  • I had to be relentlessly on my toes to avoid anything that could possibly tarnish my image, my family's image, or the country at large.†   (source)
  • The relentless pursuit of equity and justice.†   (source)
  • The song went on, filling the air between us with its rapid pulse and relentless guitars.†   (source)
  • Well, except relentless Liz, who stopped by once a week to drop off a CD mix of whatever new music she was loving, which she cheerfully stacked on top of the untouched CD she'd left the week before.†   (source)
  • He would train relentlessly, speak of himself in the third person, load up on carbohydrates.†   (source)
  • The woman's relentless jollity irritated her.†   (source)
  • Snow Began to Fall come dusk lovely tangos wind and flake silent wisps growing bold wicked relentless hinting winter's random temper breath taking dazzling lifting me to heights I'd never approached silver frosted morning white landscape reflecting purple painted sky but as Newton would opine what goes skyward must surely crash.†   (source)
  • Tomorrowland encompassed everything from space travel to the household appliances of the future, depicting progress as a relentless march toward greater convenience for consumers.†   (source)
  • Adam's relentlessness crossed over onto the football field, where he was the star tackler and earned the defensive player of the year award before the Browns moved again, this time to Indian Springs, Nevada.†   (source)
  • And at such moments Belle watched him, too, sympathy struggling to overcome the relentless vacuity in her face.†   (source)
  • The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself.†   (source)
  • Mukhtar didn't speak with sophistication or learning, but she was relentless and effective.†   (source)
  • But so relentless was her pain that Sister couldn't acknowledge Matron's kindness.†   (source)
  • Money was greatly on his mind, though not as relentlessly as it had been earlier in the day-a day he'd begun "without the price of a cat's miaow."†   (source)
  • 'The first thing I'd done when I woke up that morning'after acknowledging my pounding, relentless headache'was try to piece together the events from the day before.†   (source)
  • Once he was determined, once he had focused on an object, the Prince was relentless.†   (source)
  • And the clock moved relentlessly on: ten, half after, eleven, half after.†   (source)
  • Only in calculus, his forte, has he managed to stay afloat through relentless effort.†   (source)
  • Ellie might not look at him, but she didn't pursue him relentlessly with words, as Clara did.†   (source)
  • No one could have convinced them that they were not relentlessly and aggressively ugly.†   (source)
  • Low, relentless, brute power.†   (source)
  • IN HAMILTON, THE TEMPERATURE creeps up into the nineties, the sun beats relentlessly on the lot, and the lemonade goes missing.†   (source)
  • They lead the relentless foreigners to the houses of their neighbors and strip poor women and children of everything they have to eat or wear; and after plundering them in this sort, the brutes often ravish the mothers and daughters and compel the fathers and sons to behold their brutality.†   (source)
  • Which is good, because they tease me about Dave relentlessly.†   (source)
  • It seemed hard to believe that he was a lonely person, searching relentlessly in bottles, under women's skirts, in church work and lofty job titles for his "personal niche," lost before birth and unrecovered since.†   (source)
  • Our teachers pushed us relentlessly.†   (source)
  • It had been rising relentlessly—a graph plotting the crime rate in any American city over recent decades looked like a ski slope in profile and it seemed now to herald the end of the world as we knew it.†   (source)
  • For hours they stared relentlessly at the scarlet ribbon on the map and hated it because it would not move up high enough to encompass the city.†   (source)
  • "Anyway, the thing is that the shepherd showed me how to get a lamb to suck milk off your fingers," the girl went on relentlessly.†   (source)
  • The rain beats down relentlessly, mixing with the strangled sounds of Felicity's sobbing.†   (source)
  • Sweat poured down his face, stinging his eyes as he pressed the offensive at a relentless pace.†   (source)
  • And as I hugged them as hard and relentlessly as only a girl drunk on tequila can, it sank in on me that this was really goodbye.†   (source)
  • The jurors, who had been so relentlessly bored the entire day before, were wide-awake and eager to witness this unexpected twist in the case.†   (source)
  • Now Nikita Khrushchev's relentless quest for power has put the world on the brink of nuclear war.†   (source)
  • He would putter blandly along, then suddenly, unexpectedly, as if to remind himself he was still in charge of something, he would burst out like that, his intentions right, but his manner stubborn and relentless, forcing distances between us.†   (source)
  • Actually, it passes across—" He chatted on relentlessly, as they made their way back.†   (source)
  • The shelling had been relentless.†   (source)
  • Relentless, it will soon crush the car like an eggshell.†   (source)
  • Miss Rachel flailed relentlessly at a heaving tangle of lily pads, bed sheet, legs and arms, and twining ivy.†   (source)
  • Henry was relentless that year, chasing me, pulling my pigtails.†   (source)
  • Beyond Korphe K2, the ice peaks of the inner Karakoram knifed relentlessly into a defenseless blue sky.†   (source)
  • "If you cross me"—the Commandant holds my eyes relentlessly—"you'll join the faces on that wall.†   (source)
  • I know that man; he's relentless.†   (source)
  • Attolia attacked relentlessly and secured one island after another.†   (source)
  • The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs' relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair.†   (source)
  • She became relentless in her probing, as insistent as Geoffrey Washburn had been on the Ile de Port Noir, but without the doctor's patience.†   (source)
  • Regardless of the fee, Baldwin was a relentless defender and rarely lost in court.†   (source)
  • They were effective in stopping the fire's spread west, but the wind pushed it north and east relentlessly.†   (source)
  • What had been more or less de facto was to become relentlessly de jure.†   (source)
  • He courted darkness, shadows, just as relentlessly as he courted the light.†   (source)
  • But Norberto was relentless, showing Cesar that he could walk just fine.†   (source)
  • His elegant hands relentless so that her cries came out in whimpers of shock and gratitude.†   (source)
  • Our tour of sites began to seem relentless.†   (source)
  • Whatever was coursing through his body, whether food poisoning, an infection acquired from one of the invalids at the resort, or something else, was fast, relentless, and growing in its power.†   (source)
  • His long right arm shot out, and he grabbed Sam's wrist: his fingers were like a vice; slowly and relentlessly he bent the hand down and forward, till with a cry of pain Sam released the sword and it fell to the ground; and all the while Gollum's other hand was tightening on Sam's throat.†   (source)
  • He relentlessly searched out a great beauty—and then he took her!†   (source)
  • Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.†   (source)
  • Men, women, and children continued to die from these ailments and from the relentlessly frigid nights.†   (source)
  • I could recall my father's voice, doctrinaire, relentless.†   (source)
  • There were no mountains or trees to block the cold bite of the relentless eastern wind, carrying the frosty air from Reghed Glacier.†   (source)
  • He drove recklessly, with the expectation of relentless pursuit, which didn't occur.†   (source)
  • In the background the sounds of gunshots were relentless.†   (source)
  • Danny pushed himself relentlessly in his work.†   (source)
  • There was a chill in the wind during the last days the sun occupied a summer place in the sky—and something relentless in the way the wind drove the sand and dust ahead of it.†   (source)
  • Yet he continued, with just that sort of relentless bantering she seemed to attract from men who were married; until finally, happily, it did begin to seem almost all right, what had happened.†   (source)
  • The Fragility of Industrial Profit It's tempting to look to the owners of Standard Motor Products and ask them to help Maddie out: to cut costs a little less relentlessly, take slightly lower profits, and maybe even help solve America's jobs crisis in some small way.†   (source)
  • But Junior Whitshank was dry as a bone, droning on relentlessly while the other diners ate their food in dogged silence.†   (source)
  • Movement everywhere: a myriad arms, rising and falling, hands flailing, backs bending and straightening in a relentless rhythm.†   (source)
  • Only the music, and the soft tap-tap-tap of his brush, and the occasional click of his Nikon camera as he recorded his relentless progress.†   (source)
  • But McLean relentlessly presses ahead with the questioning.†   (source)
  • We could not go fast because of the ice, but we drove relentlessly, hardly glancing at the passing of Texas beside us.†   (source)
  • Socialist reality: fighting night and day—the relentless battle-that's what they say, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Loren Passerine, on his podium, hovered like a puppet-master, his eyes bright, his smile practiced and relentless.†   (source)
  • I had admired his journals inordinately, and had considered Gide's probity and relentless self-dissection to be part of one of the truly triumphant feats of the civilized twentieth-century mind.†   (source)
  • The weather is as relentlessly hot as before.†   (source)
  • Luke had known, as if the knowledge were implicit in the trees and sky, knowledge beyond mere words or even feelings, that all their high and narrow hopes were doomed: each would glide toward the other one's death as the two sides of the pond glided gently and relentlessly toward the grassy outlet where the streams crossed and fell away to the river.†   (source)
  • Afternoons, she dreaded the relentless downsweep of the hour hand, which at five guillotined her day.†   (source)
  • Old Solomon was far away in his sleep, his face looked small, relentless, and devout, as if he were walking somewhere where she could imagine the snow falling.†   (source)
  • It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.†   (source)
  • For, looking back, it seemed to her that all the people she had met were secretly, silently but relentlessly, persuading her to marry.†   (source)
  • Bulb by bulb, each one easier than the one before it, Thomas attacked relentlessly.†   (source)
  • Frustrated, I tapped and tugged relentlessly until finally, as if by magic, the horse's foot lifted.†   (source)
  • She's floating on her back, borne up by her belt and death, staring into that relentless sun.†   (source)
  • Ever since I got here, I mean, we were just on each other relentlessly.†   (source)
  • His face became tight as I badgered him relentlessly.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun was relentless in his efforts to pay the workers well and promptly.†   (source)
  • Gordon has a kind of relentless curiosity about the world.†   (source)
  • But, though the night dragged relentlessly, it was not the worst night of my life.†   (source)
  • White was a compact, trimly built man who played an aggressive, relentless game of squash—daily.†   (source)
  • The engine pounds like an iron heart, the train moves relentlessly westward.†   (source)
  • It beat down on Ned's head, warm as blood and relentless as old guilts.†   (source)
  • The elf tightened her relentless grip even more, so as to extinguish him like a snuffed candle.†   (source)
  • The relentless march of time and the hoarding of resources.†   (source)
  • It was as difficult to stop his relentless pacing as to refrain from shouting.†   (source)
  • The war went on and on, a relentless motor.†   (source)
  • Torrential rain poured down relentlessly.†   (source)
  • The surge of morphine seemed relentless now, but he knew God was guiding him.†   (source)
  • Today is the third day of cold, driving, relentless downpour.†   (source)
  • What happened was relentlessly and excruciatingly dull: I lay in a hospital bed and hurt.†   (source)
  • But Ron had never endured a relentless campaign of insults, jeers and intimidation.†   (source)
  • At the house, I was thrashed relentlessly.†   (source)
  • They smash against walls and bedframes, relentlessly pummeling each other.†   (source)
  • "The word 'relentless' was coined to describe you, Jess," said Rose.†   (source)
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